Detox. No, comedian Sam Hyde is not responsible for the Crimean Bridge attack

This is perhaps the most well-worn hoax on the web.

A few hours after the attack on the Crimean bridge, an identity document, supposedly found on the spot, circulated on social networks. The culprit is said to be a Ukrainian named Semen Hydenko. But As several Internet users have spotted, this person does not exist. The document corresponds to a standard model of Ukrainian passport, which can be found on official sites, such as those of the Council of the European Union and the Ukrainian Migration Service.

As proof, the identification numbers, registration reference, expiry date and signature are exactly the same. ” The transcription of the surname is not correct “, also underlined the Ukrainian journalist Luchkov Andrii. The most seasoned Internet users have also recognized, behind “Semen Hydenko”, a Ukrainian version of “Sam Hyde”, an American comedian who is accustomed to each attack or attack in the world.

For nearly a decade, trolls on platforms like 4chan and Twitter have had fun incriminating Sam Hyde, with (real) photos of the comedian wielding a gun, along with a name slightly edited to sound more “authentic”. . His name was released after the Paris attacks in 2015, during an attack in a German cinema in 2016, or a shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. He was even accused in January 2020 of being the source of the spread of the coronavirus. And this is not his first appearance in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict!

The same altered identity card made the rounds on social networks on February 21, when Russia promised to “denazify” Ukraine, it was then presented as the ” identity card of the leader of Azov, killed by Russian “peacekeepers” earlier today in Luhansk “.

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